TEAM-UP together awards 62 scholarships to Black undergraduates in physics, astronomy
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2023 – TEAM-UP Together is pleased to announce its second cohort of scholars: 62 students who will ...
Tag: Astronomy
Matthew Bailes, Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin receive the 2023 Shaw Prize in Astronomy
The Shaw Prize in Astronomy 2023 is awarded in equal shares to Matthew Bailes, Director of the Australian Research Council ...
First-of-its-kind measurement of the Universe’s expansion rate weighs in on a longstanding debate in physics and astronomy
Thanks to data from a magnified, multiply imaged supernova, a team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has ...
Research uncovers details about the mysterious author of early astronomy textbooks
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Around 1800, an English schoolmistress named Margaret Bryan wrote several well-regarded textbooks on astronomy and physics for ...
Instrument adapted from astronomy observation helps capture singular quantum interference effects
By adapting technology used for gamma-ray astronomy, a group of experimental researchers has found that X-ray transitions previously thought to ...
TEAM-UP Together awards 31 scholarships to African American students in physics, astronomy
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2022 – TEAM-UP Together is pleased to announce its first cohort of scholars, 31 African American students ...
COVID-19 has had positive effect on astronomy research, but negative effect on new and female researchers
The COVID-19 pandemic has had both positive and negative impacts on astronomy research, where overall the number of research papers ...
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day recognized for decades of outreach
On June 16, 1995, when the World Wide Web was young, two gamma-ray astronomers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center ...
National Astronomy Meeting 2022: First media announcement
Journalists are warmly invited to attend the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2022), to take place at the ...
Pathways to the skies: NAU and CCC launch partnership to increase URM participation in astronomy, planetary science and other STEM fields
Professor David Trilling, chair of Northern Arizona University’s Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, has been awarded a grant by ...
UCI-led astronomy team finds evidence of galactic metal shrouded in dust
Irvine, Calif., June 1, 2022 – A thorough understanding of galaxy evolution depends in part on an accurate measurement of ...
Unistellar and SETI Institute expand Worldwide Citizen-Science Astronomy Network
May 25, 2022, Marseilles, France and Mountain View, CA -- The number of citizen scientists surveying the night sky is ...
Lennart Lindegren and Michael Perryman receive the 2022 Shaw Prize in Astronomy
Hipparcos, launched in 1989, measured the positions and motions of over 100 000 stars with an accuracy two orders of ...
TAIP awarded $12.5 million grant to roll back underrepresentation of undergraduate African Americans in physics, astronomy
WASHINGTON, April 5, 2022 – TEAM-UP Together, a new initiative by the American Institute of Physics and key physics and ...
AIP report: Harassment, discrimination in astronomy takes many forms
WASHINGTON, March 29, 2022 – The existence of harassment and discrimination in academia has been well documented across a variety ...
24 teachers from 13 states to become NASA Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors
March 1, 2022, Mountain View, CA — The SETI Institute has selected 24 teachers from 13 states as 2022 NASA ...
New finding in astronomy: black hole spins on its side
Scientist Prof. Dr. Svetlana Berdyugina, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Freiburg and Director of the Leibniz Institute for ...
Space telescope ushers in new age of astronomy
A "game changing" new telescope will be blasted into space tonight to embark on a lonely 1.5-million-kilometre orbit around the ...
WVU-led Dolly Sods GPU cluster to drive new frontiers of computational research in physics and astronomy, drug discovery, data science and more
A graphics processing unit computer cluster called “Dolly Sods” will enable researchers throughout the state to accelerate computational research in ...
Meet the Martian meteorite hunters
Credit: Natasha Almeida / Natural History Museum A team at the Natural History Museum (NHM), London is paving the way ...
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New findings on hair loss in men
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Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal
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Grant awarded to University of Louisville law professor will fund climate adaptation project
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Unleashing the power of AI to track animal behavior
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Archaeologists discover world’s oldest wooden structure
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University of Cincinnati research examines the molecular mechanism of psychological loss